Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday (February 14th) that the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has taken steps in favor of the United States, which undermines the positive relations between Tokyo and Moscow.
Commenting on the so-called “Northern Lands Day”, which took place in Japan on February 7, Zakharova noted the special intensity of Russian hostility that characterizes it.
Official Tokyo, according to the diplomat, in its desire to review the post-war realities that are the basis of the modern world order, ignores not only generally accepted international standards, but also its own moral norms.
“We realized that the unsubstantiated territorial claims to the Southern Kuril Islands were accompanied this time by brutal attacks on Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine,” Zakharova said. Public News Service.
He urged the Japanese authorities to fully recognize the consequences of the Second World War, which, among other things, was enshrined in the UN Charter.